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(9) Head Study. Digital sketch from photo. Photoshop CS, soft brush on low opacity, 30-45 minutes. The proportions are slightly off when checked with a post-drawing overlay. The first time someone's watching me freehand.

(11) Young man head study. Digital sketch from photo, PainterX. I have more problems drawing heads digitally (sensing proportions) than traditionally. Maybe this has to do with the little stroke I'm doing on my little tablet.

(12) [i]Lamp{/i}. Painter X, 15 minutes - from life. I quite like this simple pastel variant, and I'll probably pick a less saturated color set for some portrait studies. This was a technical exercise to paint from 4 values (including paper color) without blending. I'm abit surprised at how eliminating the use of an outline lead to a more realistic quality.

Great stuff here Vaei! Keep up with those hand studies as the hand is one of the most suggestive features of the body. Also look into doing some copying from the Masters to get a feel for real value and colour. Another good thing is learning your anatomy, life drawing and books can help greatly with this. One more thing, do you work off the computer too? If so lets see some of those!